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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1929
Page
7
In Bonham Texas Lem Tittsworth promotes fresh stock at Brannon's featuring bed room living room and breakfast room suites Axminster rugs and gas safe stoves. Also offered are second hand Detroit Gas Cook stove oil wood cook stoves cabinets dining tables and Davenettes with a 98 cent sale advertised for newlyweds and notice windows.
The only exclusive Optome trist located permanently in Fannin County is Dr. Chas F. Feris, at the Benton House, 219 West Street, Bonham. Phone 502.
Notification from San Antonio reports Mrs. H. G. Evans died at eight oclock after months of illness. She improved briefly after traveling with Mrs. Hight to seek relief but contracted influenza and could not recover. Her husband Mr. Evans stayed with her for weeks while visiting home briefly for business. The body will be brought home tomorrow afternoon with funeral plans pending depending on her son arriving from Arizona.
City loans on business houses frame dwellings and churches from $2000 upward at attractive rates. Contact Charles G. Nunn. Publication dates January 18 25 February 1.
Real estate notice for a first time on market residence on West 5th Street offered by M T J M Lowrey. Advertises a fair price and easy terms for a ready buyer seeking a convenient city location.
Billy Joe Barry, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. N. G. Barry, died at the family home near Edhube Thursday night. Funeral was held this afternoon with burial at Carson graveyard north of Ector.
The weather forecast predicted cold air but a warm spell arrived with rain across Fannin County. Windom, Dodd City, Honey Grove, Ravenna, Lamasego, Ivanhoe, Sherman, Bailey, Ector, and Gober reported light to heavy rainfall, with the Northern Texas Telephone Co providing the rainfall update.
Eugenia Doyle, 78, widow of Henry Doyle, died at her Forest Hall home. Survived by sons Goethe Johnnie William and sisters H P Jones Josie Scherer. Funeral at Baptist Church with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. See BRONNON'S windows, 169-6.
Lions Club attendance thin due to flu. Miss Norma McDougal of Favorite Printing spoke on Bonham life and hospitality, praising schools and streets but urging pavement upgrades. Ross Smith, chair, praised local dairying and truck farming and shared thoughts on orchard heritage and diversification.
Dr Henry R Scates offers properly fitted eyeglasses with office hours from 8 39 a m to 12 noon and 12 30 p m to 5 p m at Office North Side Square Tel 198 and residence 645.
The article notes a contrast between two Bonham based figures with divergent fortunes. Homer Franklin, new manager of Woolworths in Bonham, succeeds Dan Chastain and joins the Lions Club after being elected following a directors meeting. Franklin, from East Texas, has managed stores in Lubbock and Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
One half acre lot with modern conveniences offered at $2,500. Easy terms. Also note district singing convention hosted by M J M Lowrey at Clark Memorial M E Church South Bonham Sunday at 2 pm. C R Jones presiding.
An urging to parents to nurture children in their formative years using proper educational tools. The message emphasizes avoiding neglect and advises giving a child a typewriter to support early skill development and writing readiness.
W J Smith 77 died just after 1 pm at the home of Mr and Mrs W C Reeves in Christina. He was visiting his daughter for the holidays from his Farmersville home and had been ill. Funeral plans in Farmersville awaited a final time.
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